SIEGFRIED.
They fear the cross.
CHAPLAIN (steps back again).
Perchance 'tis there as here!
Where men will place it next to Wotan's tree
Right gladly, for they do not surely know
If magic may not dwell there; as we see
Devoutest Christians hesitate to break
A heathen image, for some remnant still
Awakes within them of the olden fear
Before those staring eyes.
SCENE VI
Flourish of trumpets. BRUNHILDA, FRIGGA, GUNTHER, HAGEN, VOLKER, retainers, KRIEMHILD and UTE approach them from the castle.
GUNTHER.
And here's the castle!
My mother's coming now to welcome thee,
Kriemhilda too.
VOLKER (_to BRUNHILDA, as the women approach each other).
Are they no gain to thee?